13. x 5, 2, 3 15. x 1
17. (x 1)(2x
2
3) 19. x
3
(x 4)(x
2
3)
21. (x 2)
3
(x
2
7)
23. Lower bound: 5; upper bound: 2
25. Lower bound: 1; no upper bound less than 3
27. Lower bound: 8; upper bound 4
29. x
2,
2
1
, 3
31. x
1
3
,
1
2
, 2
33. x
2,
37
2
5
,
(3
2
7 5)
35. x
1
2
, 3
, 2
, 3
, 2
37. x {1, 4, 3
, 3
}
39. x 50, x 2.24698, x 0.5549581,
x 0.80193774
41. (a) The only possible rational roots of x
2
2 are 1, 1,
2, 2. None of those numbers are roots of the polyno-
mial, so the square root of two is irrational.
(b) The only possible rational roots of x
2
3 are 1, 1,
3, 3. None of those numbers are roots of the polyno-
mial, so the square root of three is irrational.
(c) The only possible rational roots of x
2
4 are 1, 1,
2, 2, 4, 4. We try them all and find that 2 and 2
both are roots of the polynomial.
43. (a) 5.78 per 100,000 and 5.62 per 100,000
(b) Middle of 1997
(c) 1995
(d) 2004
(e) 2002–2004
45. The sides should be 2 inches.
47. (a) 6 degrees per day, 6.6435 degrees per day
(b) t 2.033 and t 10.7069 (days)
(c) t 5.0768 and t 9.6126
(d) t 4
49. (a) The carrying capacity is an upper bound on the popula-
tion of bunnies, while the threshold population is a
lower bound.
(b) The population is increasing
(c) It is decreasing
(d) It is decreasing
(e) kx(x T)(C x)
(f) x T, x C, x 0
Section 4.4, page 278
1. Yes 3. No 5. No
7. This could be the graph of a polynomial function of degree
at least 3 or 5.
9. Not the graph of a polynomial function.
11. This could be the graph of a polynomial function of degree
at least 5.
ANSWERS 991
13. In a very large window like 50 x 50, 100,000
y 1,000,000 the graph looks like the graph of y x
4
.
15. Roots 2, 1, 3; each has (odd) multiplicity 1.
17. Root 2 has multiplicity 1, root 1 has multiplicity 1, and
root 2 has (even) multiplicity 2 (or possibly higher).
19. (e) 21. (f) 23. (c)
25. Since this is a polynomial function of degree 3, the com-
plete graph must have another x-intercept.
27. Since this is a polynomial function of degree 4 with positive
leading coefficient, both of the ends should point up; here
they are pointing down.
29. 5 x 5, 50 y 30
31. 6 x 6, 60 y 320
33. 3 x 4, 35 y 20
35. 33 x 2, 50,000 y 260,000 then 2 x 3,
20 y 30
37. (a) The graph of a cubic polynomial can have no more than
two local extrema. If only one, the ends would go in the
same direction. Hence it can have two or none.
(b) When the end behavior and the number of extrema are
both accounted for, these four shapes are the only pos-
sible ones.
39. (a) The ends go in opposite directions, so the degree is odd.
(b) Since if x is large and positive, so is f (x), the leading co-
efficient is positive.
(c) Root 2 has multiplicity 1, root 0 has multiplicity
at least 2, root 4 has multiplicity 1, root 6 has multi-
plicity 1.
(d) Adding the multiplicities from c, the polynomial must
have degree at least 5.
41.
43.
x intercepts: 1, 1 3
;
local max: (2, 2);
local min: (0, 2)
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40
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x
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y